CONNECTED awarded £500K from UKRI-International
15th July 2022
The Community Network for Vector-Borne Plant Viruses (CONNECTED), based at the University of Bristol, has been awarded half a million pounds from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) International from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
Crops Collection offer for members
1st July 2022
For the first six months of this year, we negotiated special access for CONNECTED members to the Burleigh Dodds academic publishing company’s Crops Collection. While this access has now ended, if you are interested in using this resource, they are offering it at the much reduced price of £295 for a year.
New CONNECTIONS Conference Highlights
1st July 2022
The New CONNECTIONS online conference ran from 28-30 June 2022, and brought together plant pathologists and entomologists from all over the world to consider the research needed to tackle vector-borne plant viruses.
Global Plant Council CONNECTED webinar and other videos
30th June 2022
CONNECTED Co-Director, Prof Neil Boonham recently delivered a webinar for the Global Plant Council, to share information about CONNECTED and the value of networks within scientific research – bringing researchers together to collaborate, share information and receive support.
Resource spotlight: Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations
10th June 2022
We recently came across this great book from Springer Nature books which is free to download and gives a lot of valuable information on tropical crops such as banana, cassava, sweet potato, and yam, as well as agriculture value creation, crop waste management, digital pest control and citizen science.
What should an Early Career Researcher Network look like?
10th June 2022
At the upcoming New CONNECTIONS conference we are holding a Networking Event on peer support networks, exploring the co-creation of a global Early Career Researcher Network for plant health. We want to get your ideas on what this might look like.
Less is More: defining a more global network
9th June 2022
With around 1500 members from 85 countries, CONNECTED is a truly global network. We have recently explored where CONNECTED Members are based, and it has led us to make a small change in how we define the network.
Concentrating on Cassava
31st May 2022
Each month we will be highlighting some particularly interesting chapters from the Burleigh Dodds academic publishing company’s agricultural science database, which is available free to members until the end of June 2022.
Clean seeds, pest management and more
20th May 2022
Our 7th online seminar took place on Thursday 19th May… with two fascinating talks. Here are a few highlights from what we learned.